The help [videorecording] / Dreamworks Pictures and Reliance Entertainment present ; in association with Participant Media and Imagenation Abu Dhabi ; a 1492 Pictures/Harbinger Pictures production ; produced by Brunson Green, Chris Columbus, Michael Barnathan ; written for the screen and directed by Tate Taylor.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: 106897 | Touchstone Home EntertainmentLanguage: English, French, Spanish Original language: English Publication details: Burbank, CA : Touchstone Home Entertainment ; distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, 2011.Description: 1 videodisc (146 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inUniform titles:
  • Help (Motion picture : 2011)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 791.43/72 23
LOC classification:
  • PN1997.2 .H457 2011
Contents:
Special features includes: deleted scenes with introductions by director Tate Taylor; Mary J. Blige's "The living proof" music video.
Production credits:
  • Music, Thomas Newman ; editor, Hughes Winborne ; director of photography, Stephen Goldblatt.
Awards:
  • Academy Awards, 2012: Best supporting actress (Spencer)
Cast: Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Bryce Dallas Howard, Octavia Spencer, Jessica Chastain, Cicely Tyson, Mike Vogel, Sissy Spacek, Allison Janney, Chris Lowell, Ahna O'Reilly, Mary Steenburgen.Summary: In 1960s Mississippi, Skeeter, a southern society girl, returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends' lives, and a small Mississippi town, upside down when she decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent southern families. Aibileen, Skeeter's best friend's housekeeper, is the first to open up, to the dismay of her friends in the tight-knit black community.
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Based on the novel by Kathryn Stockett.

DVD release of the 2011 motion picture.

Bonus features: deleted scenes with introductions by director Tate Taylor; Mary J. Blige's "The living proof" music video.

Music, Thomas Newman ; editor, Hughes Winborne ; director of photography, Stephen Goldblatt.

Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Bryce Dallas Howard, Octavia Spencer, Jessica Chastain, Cicely Tyson, Mike Vogel, Sissy Spacek, Allison Janney, Chris Lowell, Ahna O'Reilly, Mary Steenburgen.

In 1960s Mississippi, Skeeter, a southern society girl, returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends' lives, and a small Mississippi town, upside down when she decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent southern families. Aibileen, Skeeter's best friend's housekeeper, is the first to open up, to the dismay of her friends in the tight-knit black community.

MPAA rating: PG-13, for thematic material.

DVD, NTSC ; widescreen (1.85:1) presentation ; Dolby digital 5.1 surround (English, French and Spanish) and DVS 2.0 stereo. (English).

In English, dubbed French or dubbed Spanish, with optional subtitles in English for the hearing impaired, French or Spanish; Closed-captioned; Descriptive audio in English for the visually impaired.

Academy Awards, 2012: Best supporting actress (Spencer)

Special features includes: deleted scenes with introductions by director Tate Taylor; Mary J. Blige's "The living proof" music video.